hands and on their shoulders great cups of gold and silver, in shape like the famous gold cups found at Vaphio in Lakonia, but much larger, also a ewer of gold and silver exactly like one of bronze discovered by Mr. Evans two years ago at Knossos, and a huge copper jug with four ring-handles round the sides.  All these vases are specifically and definitely Mycenaean, or rather, following the new terminology, Minoan.  They are of Greek manufacture and are carried on the shoulders of Pelasgian Greeks.  The bearers wear the usual Mycenaean costume, high boots and a gaily ornamented kilt, and little else, just as we see it depicted in the fresco of the Cupbearer at Knossos and in other Greek representations.  The coiffure, possibly the most characteristic thing about the Mycenaean Greeks, is faithfully represented by the Egyptians both here and in Rekhmara’s tomb.  The Mycenaean men allowed their hair to grow to its full natural length, like women, and wore it partly hanging down the back, partly tied up in a knot or plait (the kepas of the dandy Paris in the Iliad) on the crown of the head.  This was the universal fashion, and the Keftiu are consistently depicted by the XVIIIth Dynasty Egyptians as following it.  The faces in the Senmut fresco are not so well portrayed as those in the Rekhmara fresco.  There it is evident that the first three ambassadors are faithfully depicted, as the portraits are marked.  The procession advances from left to right.  The first man, “the Great Chief of the Kefti and the Isles of the Green Sea,” is young, and has a remarkably small mouth with an amiable expression.  His complexion is fair rather than dark, but his hair is dark brown.  His lieutenant, the next in order, is of a different type,—­elderly, with a most forbidding visage, Roman nose, and nutcracker jaws.  Most of the others are very much alike,—­young, dark in complexion, and with long black hair hanging below their waists and twisted up into fantastic knots and curls on the tops of their heads.  One, carrying on his shoulder a great silver vase with curving handles and in one hand a dagger of early European Bronze Age type, is looking back to hear some remark of his next companion.  Any one of these gift-bearers might have sat for the portrait of the Knossian Cupbearer, the fresco discovered by Mr. Evans in the palace-temple of Minos; he has the same ruddy brown complexion, the same long black hair dressed in the same fashion, the same parti-coloured kilt, and he bears his vase in much the same way.  We have only to allow for the difference of Egyptian and Mycenaean ways of drawing.  There is no doubt whatever that these Keftiu of the Egyptians were Cretans of the Minoan Age.  They used to be considered Phoenicians, but this view was long ago exploded.  They are not Semites, and that is quite enough.  Neither are they Asiatics of any kind.  They are purely and simply Mycenaean, or rather Minoan, Greeks of the pre-Hellenic period—­Pelasgi, that is to say.